Scale-dependent determinants of plant species richness in a semi-arid fragmented agro-ecosystem

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 983-996

  Giladi, Itamar ^a   Ziv, Yaron ^a   May, Felix ^b   Jeltsch, Florian ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Habitat fragmentation; Hierarchical partitioning of variance; Multi grain sampling; Scale dependence; Species density; Uniform sampling

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HETEROGENEITY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PATCHINESS; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SAMPLING; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRANSITION ZONE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ISRAEL; JUDEA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 80053575153     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01309.x     Document Type: Article

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